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Comment Re:College kids (Score 1, Troll) 767

by Gumph on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @03:40AM (#20395421) Attached to: Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six

Why Why Why Why, do people keep spreading this one button FUD crap??
modernish Macbook pros and (I dare say macbooks as well) allow you to right click by placing two fingers on the pad and clicking.

now everyone shut up about one button mice!

Submission + - Vista Drivers Listing

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RadarSync

on Monday February 19, 2007 @03:49AM

RadarSync writes: "Check out this page of free links to Vista drivers: http://www.radarsync.com/vista In many cases it has drivers that Microsoft doesn't have and that aren't easily found on the manufacturer's site: For example, see what this guy wrote: http://www.onemetal.com/neotoxic/blog/?p=13 "I have an on-board C-media High Definition surround sound Audio system. Again after hunting for drivers on the manufacturer sire I was having no luck. There was mention of Vista Drivers but nothing to download. After hunting on the net I eventually found this site http://www.radarsync.com/vista/ that and downloaded there driver.. and after a reboot... I had sound!""

Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? 957

Posted by timothy on Monday July 03, 2006 @05:28PM from the different-bell-curve-entirely dept.

Mindpicnic writes "The recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"

White House Demands Encryption for Sensitive Data 214

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 28, 2006 @04:21AM from the common-sense-after-the-fact dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stung by a series of data losses or disclosures at federal agencies over the past month, the White House is requiring all agencies to follow new guidelines when allowing employees to carry sensitive data on laptops or access the information from afar, according to the Washington Post. From the article: 'To comply with the new policy, agencies will have to encrypt all data on laptop or handheld computers unless the data are classified as "non-sensitive" by an agency's deputy director. Agency employees also would need two-factor authentication -- a password plus a physical device such as a key card -- to reach a work database through a remote connection, which must be automatically severed after 30 minutes of inactivity. Finally, agencies would have to begin keeping detailed records of any information downloaded from databases that hold sensitive information, and verify that those records are deleted within 90 days unless their use is still required.'"

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 Released 250

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 03, 2006 @09:06AM from the get-your-patch-on dept.

Mini-Geek writes "Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been released. As with previous 1.5.0.x patches, 1.5.0.3 can be downloaded as a small, incremental download. From the article: 'This update fixes a publicly disclosed denial of service weakness. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The bugfixes previously planned for Firefox 1.5.0.3 were shifted to 1.5.0.4, and a quick update was released shortly after the recent to address the publicly reported issue.'"

New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws 819

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @10:20AM from the so-many-submissions dept.

sodul writes"Apple just started a new campaign to emphasize the advantages of Mac versus a regular tasteless PC. The ads represent a young cool looking man (Mac) and a white collar in his 40's (not cool, PC). In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times because it had to reboot. In an other one (and maybe the most aggressive of all) PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy. You can watch the new spots on Apple's site "

J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film 482

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 21, 2006 @08:41AM from the that-sounds-juuust-great dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that Paramount has asked 'Lost' creator J.J. Abrams to direct a new 'Star Trek' film. The movie will be set at Starfleet Academy and will feature younger versions of James T. Kirk and Spock, chronicling their first meeting at the Academy and their first outer space mission. The movie is set for a 2008 release and will apparently be one of Paramount's biggest projects for the year."

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